Associate Director, Obligations Management
Remote · London, England, United Kingdom or Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Associate Director, Obligations Management will own the central governance infrastructure to identify, catalog, and track regulatory and financial partner requirements globally. You will lead the global obligations register and map complex statutory and partner mandates to internal compliance controls, oversee the RFI knowledge base and central audit register, and partner with Regional Regulatory Legal, Local Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit, and Second-Line Risk teams to translate legal mandates into a structured, data-driven compliance inventory. You will manage a high-performing obligations management team, scale GRC tooling, and drive audit-ready documentation across multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks. The role carries a global mandate and can be based in the US or EMEA.
Required Qualifications
- 10 to 12+ years of experience within corporate governance, regulatory compliance, internal audit, or operational risk management inside a highly regulated financial services, fintech, or banking environment
- 3 to 5+ years of experience managing a compliance inventory, regulatory obligations framework, or GRC program at a senior level within a multi-jurisdictional environment
- Proven track record of constructing complex compliance matrices, mapping internal controls to international laws, supervising audit registers, and managing institutional RFI mechanisms
- A high-ownership, systematic approach to problem-solving, with exceptional corporate drafting skills and the cross-functional agility to align decentralized regional teams with central hub standards
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Public Policy, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related structured analytical discipline
- Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), or a Master's degree in Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, or Business Administration
- Professional designations such as CAMS, CIA, or equivalent GRC-related credentials
- Deep experience in high-growth cross-border payments company, neobank, or API-driven digital platform handling high volumes of regulated transactions
- Direct experience selecting, deploying, or configuring institutional Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software systems to automate policy mapping and remediation workflows
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